Aid Transport from Tübingen Reached HRCA's Warehouse

Due to the war in Ukraine, human lives are at risk, people lack basic supplies and have been forced to leave their homes. IDPs have reached the Western part of Ukraine and refugees are arriving to Hungary in growing numbers. The Hungarian Reformed Church Aid has been providing emergency response from the first day. Daily update.

08/03/2022

címkék: hungarian reformed church aid (hrca), HRCAupdate, relief, ukraine

2022 Remains the Year of Thanksgiving for the Reformed Church in Transcarpathia

Due to the war in Ukraine, human lives are at risk, people lack basic supplies and have been forced to leave their homes. IDPs have reached the Western part of Ukraine and refugees are arriving to Hungary in growing numbers. The Hungarian Reformed Church Aid has been providing emergency response from the first day. Daily update.

07/03/2022

címkék: hungarian reformed church aid (hrca), HRCAupdate, relief, ukraine

In-Kind Donations exceed 1000 Tons

Due to the war in Ukraine, human lives are at risk, people lack basic supplies and have been forced to leave their homes. IDPs have reached the Western part of Ukraine and refugees are arriving to Hungary in growing numbers. The Hungarian Reformed Church Aid has been providing emergency response from the first day. Daily update.

06/03/2022

címkék: hungarian reformed church aid (hrca), HRCAupdate, relief, ukraine

Hungarian Communities of the Region Mobilize Themselves

Due to the war in Ukraine, human lives are at risk, people lack basic supplies and have been forced to leave their homes. IDPs have reached the Western part of Ukraine and refugees are arriving to Hungary in growing numbers. The Hungarian Reformed Church Aid has been providing emergency response from the first day. Daily update.

05/03/2022

címkék: hungarian reformed church aid (hrca), HRCAupdate, relief, ukraine

"Green Angels" Receive Refugees, Bishops Visit Ukraine

With this daily updates and short news we offer a glimpse into Friday's activities and events. The Hungarian Reformed Church Aid continued offering help to Refugees and visited Transcarpathia with a delegation inlcuding all the four Bishops of the Reformed Church in Hungary.

04/03/2022

címkék: hungarian reformed church aid (hrca), HRCAupdate, relief, ukraine

All Four Reformed Bishops from Hungary Visited Transcarpathia

The four Reformed Bishops from Hungary assured their brothers and sisters in Transcarpathia of their support on behalf of the Hungarian reformed community at their visit in Beregszász (Berehove). During the historic visit, beside the donations, the Bishops also presented the deep sympathy.

04/03/2022

címkék: reformed church in transcarpathia, relief, ukraine

Bishops of the Reformed Church in Hungary Visited Transcarpathia

All the four Bishops of the Reformed Church in Hungary travelled today to the Western region of Ukraine to meet with Bishop Sándor Zán Fábián, and pastors and elders of the Reformed Church in Transcarpathia in Beregszász (Berehove).

04/03/2022

címkék: reformed church in transcarpathia, relief, ukraine

"They Left Their Families, Parents And Also Their Congregations"

Krisztina Badó, Bishop's secetary from the Reformed Church in Transcarpathia, Western Ukraine, spoke movingly of the thousands of people fleeing across the border into Hungary where pastors and congregations are mobilizing to take care of these refugees.

03/03/2022

címkék: ukraine, relief, reformed church in transcarpathia

A pall of Ashes Covers Ukraine

On Ash Wednesday over 3000 Christians from 80 countries around the globe joined in a powerful prayer service of lament and solidarity with all those suffering from the effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Our Reformed Church in Transcarpathia offered an eyewitness report and prayer.

03/03/2022

címkék: ukraine, relief, reformed church in transcarpathia

The calling of the church – being present among those on the periphery

Eszter Dani was appointed as head of the Synod’s Mission Office in 2012, and she played a pivotal role in strengthening the national Reformed Roma ministry. Rev. Dani, who is also a pastor in Solymár, has been senior advisor of the Mission Service since 1 January this year.

22/01/2022

címkék: interjú, missziói iroda, cigánymisszió, missziói szolgálat, dani eszter

Refugee Moments from Personal Perspective

Eyewitness report of our colleague from Transcarpathia, who fled Ukraine and arrived to Budapest as a 'refugee'. But she couldn't stay in his friends' apartment, doing nothing. So she is working among the refugees as a volunteer at the railway stations in Budapest.

02/03/2022

címkék: hungarian reformed church aid (hrca), relief, refugee

Reformed Community Proved Love in the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis

Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, the Reformed Church in Hungary and Reformed congregations and organisations have all been trying to do their best to help refugees.

01/03/2022

címkék: hungarian reformed church aid (hrca), relief, ukraine, Bethesda Children Hospital

Bethesda Children’s Hospital Offers Help to Refugees

Medical Doctors of the Bethesda Children’s Hospital of RCH are waiting for Refugees arriving from Ukraine at the Nyugati railway station in Budapest, and soon volunteer doctors will also travel to Záhony, a city near the border.

01/03/2022

címkék: relief, hungarian reformed church aid (hrca), Bethesda Children Hospital, ukraine, refugee

Donations Exceed Hundred Thousand Euros

Záhony, a city near the Ukrainian border, has become the hub for the intervention of the Hungarian Reformed Church Aid, with thousands of people crossing the border from Ukraine each day. In Budapest, Aid organisations, NGO’s and civilians work together in receiving refugees from the morning hours until midnight at the railway stations. The shortage of shelters represents the biggest challenge at the moment.

01/03/2022

címkék: hungarian reformed church aid (hrca), relief, ukraine

Ecumenical Prayer For Peace

As a sign of global solidarity with the people and churches of Ukraine, the Conference of European Churches, the Lutheran World Federation, the World Communion of Reformed Churches, and the World Methodist Council, issue an invitation to an online prayer service for Ukraine on Ash Wednesday – March 2 at 17:00 CET.

01/03/2022

címkék: relief, ukraine

HRCA’s Emergency Response in the First Two Days

The Hungarian Reformed Church Aid has mobilised all of its capacities for the Emergency Response in Ukraine in the first two days of the Ukrainian-Russian armed conflict. HRCA transported more than 10 tons of food across the border, provided shelter for more than a hundred refugees directly, organized and maintained its presence at border crossings, and coordinated more than a thousand volunteers across the country.

28/02/2022

címkék: hungarian reformed church aid (hrca), relief, ukraine

Emergency Response for Ukraine - Overview and Updates

On February 24 Russia attacked Ukraine and invaded the country. Due to the military operations and actual war in our neighbouring country, human lives are at risk, people lack basic supplies and have been forced to leave their homes. Internally displaced people have reached the Western part of Ukraine, called also Trans- or Subcarpathia and refugees are arriving to Hungary in growing numbers. The Hungarian Reformed Church Aid (HRCA) has been providing emergency response from the first day and will keep international partners informed about its operation by publishing daily updates.

28/02/2022

címkék: hungarian reformed church aid (hrca), relief, ukraine

The Two-Fold Mission of Károli University

At present, the question is not whether there has been a Christian Europe, a Christian Hungary, but whether it will exist in the future. It is up to us to achieve that through value based education - says Prof. László Trócsányi, new Rector (President) of the Károli Gáspár University of RCH.

04/02/2022

címkék: interview, Karoli Gáspár Reformed University

Circular in Times of War: Stay Where You Are

Bishop Sándor Zán-Fábián, head of the Reformed Church in Transcarpathia, admonished pastors and elders to stay, even if they face massive emigration of the young generations. Taking care of the elderly left behind and internally displaced persons seeking refuge in West Ukraine is the most urgent social responsibility of the Hungarian reformed community in Ukraine. Read the circular sent to the nearly Hundred congregations.

25/02/2022

címkék: ukraine, relief, reformed church in transcarpathia

Christian World Commmunions Condemn Assault, Call for Peace, Invite To Prayer

“Peace must prevail,” say four global Christian communions who will host online prayer service on Ash Wednesday. RCH is also joining to work together to collectively support the churches and people of Ukraine.

24/02/2022

címkék: relief, ukraine, world communion of reformed churches (wcrc)